Guy Peellaert - Pop artist worked with rock legends »
Posted By nicholas 1 year ago in Arts & EntertainmentBelgian pop artist Guy Peellaert, whose surreal pictures for the 1972 cult book "Rock Dreams" brought him worldwide attention and led him to design album covers for the Rolling Stones and David Bowie , has died. He was 74. Mr. Peellaert died Nov. 17 in Paris after a long illness, according to media reports. "Rock Dreams" was a fantasy tribute to rock 'n' roll that placed major rock stars in dreamlike situations intended to reflect their music and images. With 116 flashy pictures by Mr. Peellaert and pithy commentary by English rock writer Nick Cohn, the book masterfully conveyed "the spirit of rock— the irreverence, the outrage, the gaudiness, the occasional tenderness," pop music critic Robert Hilburn wrote in 1974 in the Los Angeles Times.
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